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arcanaarcanorum: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: kaeebonrai: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: theprof739: ...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:18:10 -0400

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

kaeebonrai:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

theprof739:

Hey Tumblr, if you are still mad about the Library of Alexandria, Stop! You can SAVE one ancient library right now. The Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, Some nearly 2000 carbonized scrolls were discovered along with the villa in the 1700s. Over the past couple centuries the scrolls have been a major source of study and today we are finally reaching ways of reading their contents without destroying the scrolls in the process.

Here’s the big news, just over a week ago a whole lost work of Seneca the elder, became unlost! Article here: http://www.romeandart.eu/en/art-news-historia-seneca.html

The villa itself is largely underground and was explored via tunneling and as such it’s full extent still hasn’t been made clear, and it has long been suspected that additional libraries could exist within the site, not to mention other as of yet undiscovered villas. However, Italy as with many European countries simply has so many archaeological sites and new things being found all the time and not enough money to go around. Additionally the Villa of the Papyri is threatened with constant flooding issues. Library aside Sites like Herculaneum and Pompeii and all Archaeological sites around the world tell us so much about ancient peoples and cultures where we don’t have their literature to call on.

So how can you save the last ancient library? Donate to various archaeological and conservation/preservation groups, or even volunteer!

Here a just a couple links to get started:

World Monuments Fund: https://www.wmf.org/get-involved

Archaeological Institute of America: https://www.archaeological.org/giving

Friends of Herculaneum Society: http://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/

Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project: http://www.pompeii-sustainable-preservation-project.org/

Booooost!

This is kinda amazing.

Archeology is so coooool <3

BOOOOOST boost boost boost.

I’d donate money if I could spare it, but I can’t >.<, so I’mma try to get people to look at this because THIS IS AWESOME.

deathandmysticism: John Ashton, Chap-books of the eighteenth...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:17:54 -0400

deathandmysticism:

John Ashton, Chap-books of the eighteenth century, 1882

prokopetz: haleyocentrism: academia is ruined, we need to throw it back to the days when scholars...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:17:34 -0400

prokopetz:

haleyocentrism:

academia is ruined, we need to throw it back to the days when scholars were only after the cure for death, i want to wear a cool robe and get funding from the king to just do whatever the hell and kind of poison him

Tricking the nobility into drinking elemental mercury as radical praxis.

purpler0s3: aphamericanhero: iamnotswarley: futurebartallen: celticpyro: markedbyx: eevielearnsf...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:51:45 -0400

purpler0s3:

aphamericanhero:

iamnotswarley:

futurebartallen:

celticpyro:

markedbyx:

eevielearnsfrench:

Can someone just………………. explain French to me?

its spanish but you speak it in cursive

You have 11 letters. You pronounce 4 of them.

Learn to speak spanish. Now learn to speak italian. Now subtract the spanish from italian. You are left with french.

Latin, but then make it fashion

Pronounce a letter and then add a bunch of vowel sounds after it

Speak spanish, but then pretend to be throwing up the whole time.

Spanish, but cut out all consonants, sew your vowels together and speak in the fanciest tone of voice you can manage.

overwatch thing

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:46:11 -0400

byrtleby:

tag your most played hero for each class

offense, defense, tank, support

eelpatrickharris: a-youngrobot: eelpatrickharris: eelpatrickharris: hey there are worms on...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:34:27 -0400

eelpatrickharris:

a-youngrobot:

eelpatrickharris:

eelpatrickharris:

hey there are worms on everything and i’m crying

i left a bag of 1,000+ worms open overnight and over half of them escaped

welcome to hell! welcome to hell! that’s only a tiny section of the room!

Why’d you have a bag of 1000+ worms though?

did anyone ask michaelangelo what he was doing with all that paint? i think NOT

botanyshitposts: bookeyman: botanyshitposts: botanyshitposts: the thing about organic chemistry...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:34:14 -0400

botanyshitposts:

bookeyman:

botanyshitposts:

botanyshitposts:

the thing about organic chemistry is that you finally get to use all the aesthetically pleasing mad scientist looking chemistry apperatuses that you’ve been waiting to use for years but when u finally get to use them they all turn out to do surprisingly boring things

behold, the radical-looking and DEEPLY aesthetically pleasing rotovap we used in lab today. ‘ooo what is it doing???’ u ask, as I also did. ‘surely this spits lightning or something. maybe it could even kill a man. this would be a formitabble opponent in the robot apocalypse’

but no. it turns out that the machine called ‘the rotovap’ just evaporates things faster….by rotating them

And you don’t enjoy that? You joyless corn shuck.

human brain: this machine is not nearly as cool in functionality as i anticipated
monkey brain:

tygermama: theseerofdoomisunaltered: hi i try to be funny on...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:33:49 -0400

tygermama:

theseerofdoomisunaltered:

hi i try to be funny on twitter pls follow me (part 6)

okay but I need that Hanzo and Junkrat story

I need ten of them

arcanaarcanorum: zaunites-finest: passiveanimatronic: ultimate-...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:30:03 -0400

arcanaarcanorum:

zaunites-finest:

passiveanimatronic:

ultimate-reserve-hope:

bejeweledaqua:

dracophile:

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pheenixwright:

invenblocker:

pheenixwright:

invenblocker:

pheenixwright:

invenblocker:

forthefuns:

follow forthefuns for more funny stuff

Your honor! Please direct your attention towards the manga.

As you can see there are small pieces of paper sticking out of every volume.

But no such paper is sticking out of the Batman comic.

The reason? The Batman book doesn’t belong to the library. The photographer put it there to take a picture.

Once again making hasty assumptions, Wright?

First of all, I’d like to direct the court’s attention to this particular spot, in the top right-hand corner.

Notice how the words are blocking the top of the Batman book.

With this in mind, how can you claim that there is “no such paper sticking out of the Batman comic”?!

Say whaaaat?

Well uhm

Look at the size of the paper pieces, they’re all sticking pretty far out.

If there was paper in the batman comic, it would be big enough to stick up over the text.

And while gravity does exist, it probably won’t make the paper do a 90 degree turn and just lean horisontally left at the middle.

Still grasping for straws, Wright?

Hypothetically, if there were a paper there, this picture would not be able to prove its presence. I’ve taken the liberty of drawing a diagram to illustrate my point. We are faced with three possibilities. It is possible that (1) the paper was simply tucked in deeper than the others.

Paper is a soft material, Wright. It’s not unreasonable for it to do a (2) 90 degree turn.

Or perhaps, (3) a paper does not exist there at all.

Either way, you cannot prove your client innocent without sufficient evidence.

Which, of course, is impossible thanks to the obtrusive words.

I’m sorry Edgeworth.

I concede that I can’t disprove theory 1

But the image you submited for theory 2 is contradictory.

Look at the tilt of the other papers. They clearly prove how much the paper would tilt.

And theory 3 is my point! Why would the library’s book not have this piece of paper when the other library books do?

While you still have thory 1, there is another contradiction.

The books are not in alphabetical order, this proves that the batman comic was placed there specifically for the picture!

Ack.

(Perhaps I should’ve left the artistry to the forensic artist…)

Now hold it right there! It doesn’t matter which direction the paper is going because it’s impossible to prove it even exists!

Those theories are all the same! We do not have enough information to prove them. There could be an infinite amount of papers in there for all we know. I simply presented them only so that the court could better understand your baseless conjecture!

… I suppose the order of the books do seem out of the ordinary. However, therein lies not just one possibility. Clearly, those are Japanese graphic novels, also known as “manga”. And the Batman comic book is a graphic novel, too, no?

Seeing as it currently has only graphic novels in the shelf, it is possible that any other novels have simply not yet been restocked. Asserting whether or not this effect was deliberate is useless– there is no way of knowing if the photographer and the captioner are the same person, let alone their involvement in this picture.

Face it Wright, you can’t prove any of these groundless accusations!

Did everyone just ignore the library sticker?

D E AD

I will reblog this any time i see it on my dash

Absolutely fucking D E S T R O Y E D

This is the strongest Tumblr post I’ve ever witnessed.

Holycrapthisactuallyshoweduponmydash.

The possibility that someone moved the books remains….

Do you know of any lists of paranormal/cryptid museums? I went to a Bigfoot one and want more but google is making me sift through a bunch of haunted houses

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:23:21 -0400

International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine

Mystery Town, USA in Mackinaw City, Michigan

Skunk Ape Research Headquarters in Ochopee, Florida

Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, West Virginia

International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico

Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, California

The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium and Museum in Portland, Oregon

The Paranormal Museum in Asbury Park, New Jersey

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History in London, England

Speculum Alchemie in Prague, Czech Republic

The Museum of Alchemists and Magicians of Old Prague in Prague, Czech Republic

Photo

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:22:54 -0400

latinteacherproblems: “I just realized that we learned how to say ‘I beat you with a stick’ in this...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:22:34 -0400

latinteacherproblems:

“I just realized that we learned how to say ‘I beat you with a stick’ in this class before we learned how to say ‘Hello.’”

katschy: loloftheday: Plant shaming He’s a doctor.

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:09:10 -0400

katschy:

loloftheday:

Plant shaming

He’s a doctor.

abhorrent-elms: Being visible is the worst! Having a physical form is abominable! Public spaces are...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:01:48 -0400

abhorrent-elms:

Being visible is the worst! Having a physical form is abominable! Public spaces are a nightmare! If you see me outside no you don’t!

chuckling-chemist: rcmclachlan: jenroses: supernova2395: madmi...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:36:08 -0400

chuckling-chemist:

rcmclachlan:

jenroses:

supernova2395:

madmints:

kasaron:

edwardspoonhands:

hoiplatapolloi:

gifsboom:

Perfect magnets

Fun story: One of the first things I was taught as an astronomy student is that, if you want to be a dick to someone giving a presentation, ask them “and how do the magnetic fields play into this?” and they will invariably say “fuck you I don’t know” because no one understands magnetic fields they are black magic.

Originally posted by fencehopping

Magnets are pure bullshit.

Pure utter bullshit. Electromagnetic forces somehow outstrip gravitic forces in strength by an obscene factor, for no reason I can comprehend and it bothers me.

I love magnets

One, that gif showing the Curie temperature is really cool.

Two, you don’t understand, magnetic fields are the bane of my existance and I have a masters dissertation about them. I studied how magnetic fields develop in low mass stars and every single meeting with my supervisor ended in some conversation about how stupid magnetism is.

“Oh yeah and this is effected by the magnetic field strength…”

“But why?”

“God knows, I don’t have a clue.”

Was literally said to me by a professor who has spent 20 years of his life looking at magnetism in stars.

ALSO:

“Don’t ask why, we don’t know. Maybe magnetism? Who knows anything about magnetism.” - My Stellar Physics professor when asked about certain processes in stellar formation, something he has been studying for 10 years.

Like we know so little about that it’s actually funny.

I’m having a Jack O’Neill moment here… “Why?”
“Magnets.”

pridefulsuggestion: understanding and agreeing are two different things.

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:25:06 -0400

pridefulsuggestion:

understanding and agreeing are two different things.

yogsothothery:The King in Yellow by Christophe Young

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:05:58 -0400

yogsothothery:

The King in Yellow by Christophe Young

ramseydeansgraphicart:Sanity and the laws of ■■■■■■ are now gone

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:04:45 -0400

ramseydeansgraphicart:

Sanity and the laws of ■■■■■■ are now gone

Photo

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:02:58 -0400

strangebiology: Journalism is being asked to write a 400-word...

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:55:33 -0400

strangebiology:

Journalism is being asked to write a 400-word article on a topic you know almost nothing about, researching it furiously, and being expected to get the whole thing written, polished, and uploaded in two hours.
Then hoping against hope that you got it all right.